MOUNTAIN MINT (Pycnanthemum pilosum) 
This is the Mountain Mint described on the front 
page. This plant has only now become promin- 
ent and only limited amount of seed is available. 
The seed is tiny, there being more than 100,000 
to the ounce. 
Seed, very small trial packet 20c, liberal packet 
$1.00, Y2 ounce $5.00, ounce $8.50, postpaid. 
TRIFOLIUM AMBIGUUM 
Named ‘’Pellett Clover’ by. the Iowa Bee-Keep- 
er's Association. 
This very unusual clover spreads rapidly from 
deep rhizocmous roots and unlike most clovers, 
increases from year to year. A plot of this at 
Pellett Gardens was grown from root divisions 
set 18 inches apart in rows which were four feet 
apart. The plants spread rapidly and completely 
filled the spaces between, early the second season. 

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Teloliun Ambiguum in bloom, 
This plant blooms in June and July and the 
bees visit the flowers freely. It appears to be the 
equal of any as a honey plant. The stem resem- 
bles that of red clover while the bloom has some 
resemblance to alsike though larger. 
The corolla tubes are short’ so that the nectar 
is readily available to short tongued insects. The 
set of seed was heavy in our small plot and it 
appears that this plant can be propogated rapidly 
by seed as well as roots once sufficient acreage 
is established from which to harvest seed. 
This clover leafs out very early in the 
spring. At first only basil leaves appear. These 
leaves are usually very large and the individual 
leafstalks are often more than a foot high. In 
late May the flowering stems appear. In our 
plots they are three to four feet tall at height 
of bloom and each stem has many flower heads 
at different heights. 
There are many questions yet to be answered 
concerning the adaptibility of this clover to dif- 
ferent soils and various field conditons. It thrives 
wonderfully on our grounds. A well established 
plant measured strong roots three to four feet 
lcnzy and a top spread of three fest iiemnera 
cf increas: from the rhizomcus roots is very sur- 
prising. Rows planted 3% feet apart in April 
1946 were growing together in places five months 
later. 

